Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Godard consciously complicates the narration of the Donnadieus' story. The director has a history of experimenting with traditional narrative conventions. In his classic New Wave film, "Breathless," for instance, he mixed elements from the detective, comedy, and suspense genres. But "Helas Pour Moi" is far less straightforward than "Breathless." Godard plays with chronology and with point of view, shifting from the Donnadieus to the townspeople to the publisher and back in forth in time. The already fragmented narrative is further broken by repeated chapter titles and words on the screen. While a straightforward plot is by no means a requirement...
...Lynches' experience is not one of those sensational au-pair-from-hell stories that make for splashy headlines and breathless movies-of-the-week. Yet it is typical enough in the annals of live-in babysitters to give pause to any family seeking an au pair. A number of the eight agencies that have placed 40,094 au pairs in American homes since 1986 say between 20% and 30% of their placements don't work out. Unhappy au pairs complain that they are lonely and treated like slaves. Discontented parents speak of au pairs who are immature, irresponsible or mentally...
...written a benchmark biography that fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell at his table at Manhattan's celebrity hangout, the Stork Club. Gabler captures everything except the essence of Winchell's breathless dot-dot-dot tabloid style. Never does the author parse an entire column or broadcast to make Winchell accessible to a generation that only dimly recalls him as the narrator of the 1960s TV series The Untouchables. A few days before the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Winchell wrote that...
...game it was all about poise," a breathless Harvard quarterback Vin Ferrara said. "We kept our cool and it paid...
...living and alcohol consumption. While Carlos hid out in the Middle East over the past 10 years, intelligence forces often cleared their blotters by blaming the elusive mastermind for their unsolved cases. Now that he is safely lodged in cell 258187 of Paris' La Sante prison, a less-than-breathless truth is rapidly emerging...